“FUENTES IS A MASTERFUL WRITER…. A WORK OF RADICAL DOUBY AND DISILLUSION THAT OFFERS A MULTIPLICITY OF UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS…. YOU’LL BE REWARDED BY THIS SUPERBLY VIGOROUS MONGREL OF A BOOK.” -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
It is New Year’s Eve, 1969. The narrator, an internationally renowned writer in his forties and a self-proclaimed Don Juan, meets the beautiful American movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her elusive charm. But infatuation becomes doomed pursuit as Diana spurs him and flees into an intrigue of paranoia and sexual jealousy. An extraordinary exploration of love, lust, betrayal, and humiliation, Diana is also a powerfully affecting novel about a vital moment in the chronicle of our times, a crucial intersection of history and art: salvation was no longer to be found in literature, and love was thwarted by the very forces that nourished it.
“A STIRRING PORTRAIT OF A PASSIONATE AFFAIR AMID THE CULTURAL CHAOS OF THE 60S AND 70S.” -DETAILS
“ENTERTAINING, UPDIKEAN EXPLICITNESS.” -NEW YORKER
CARLOS FUENTES is the author of such acclaimed novels as The Old Gringo, The Campaign, and the most recently The Orange Tree. He is the recipient of the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor given to a Spanish-language writer. He live in Mexico City and London.
It is New Year’s Eve, 1969. The narrator, an internationally renowned writer in his forties and a self-proclaimed Don Juan, meets the beautiful American movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her elusive charm. But infatuation becomes doomed pursuit as Diana spurs him and flees into an intrigue of paranoia and sexual jealousy. An extraordinary exploration of love, lust, betrayal, and humiliation, Diana is also a powerfully affecting novel about a vital moment in the chronicle of our times, a crucial intersection of history and art: salvation was no longer to be found in literature, and love was thwarted by the very forces that nourished it.
“A STIRRING PORTRAIT OF A PASSIONATE AFFAIR AMID THE CULTURAL CHAOS OF THE 60S AND 70S.” -DETAILS
“ENTERTAINING, UPDIKEAN EXPLICITNESS.” -NEW YORKER
CARLOS FUENTES is the author of such acclaimed novels as The Old Gringo, The Campaign, and the most recently The Orange Tree. He is the recipient of the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor given to a Spanish-language writer. He live in Mexico City and London.
* Esta contraportada corresponde a la edición de 1996. La Enciclopedia de la literatura en México no se hace responsable de los contenidos y puntos de vista vertidos en ella.
‘IS SOMETHING PREFERABLE TO EVERYTHING OR NOTHING? THAT’S WHAT I ASKED MYSELF WHEN THE LOVE AFFAIR I’M GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT HERE IS OVER. SHE GAVE ME EVERYTHING AND TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY FROM ME.’
‘Erudite and entertaining’ Independent on Sunday
‘A writer with things to say and beauties worth expressing… his prose lifts off and really flies’ TLS
Carlos Fuentes was born in Mexico City. His novels include Where the Air is Clear, Terra Nostra and The Old Gringo.
They met for the first time at a New Year’s Eve Party in Mexico, just as the sixties gave way to the seventies: the blonde movie actress Diana Soren, and the internationally renowned writer. For two months they lived together on location. While passions burned Diana became a slave to irrational manias and nocturnal frights. The story becomes one of paranoia and the FBI, of sexual jealousy and the Black Panthers.
‘A delicate web of vulnerabilities, an ironically elegiac reminiscence not only of the sixties but also of the fulsome style in which the younger Fuentes made love to literature.’ Sunday Times
‘A delicate web of vulnerabilities, an ironically elegiac reminiscence not only of the sixties but also of the fulsome style in which the younger Fuentes made love to literature.’ Sunday Times
‘Erudite and entertaining’ Independent on Sunday
‘A writer with things to say and beauties worth expressing… his prose lifts off and really flies’ TLS
Carlos Fuentes was born in Mexico City. His novels include Where the Air is Clear, Terra Nostra and The Old Gringo.
* Esta contraportada corresponde a la edición de 1996. La Enciclopedia de la literatura en México no se hace responsable de los contenidos y puntos de vista vertidos en ella.
